Hobbit 1st Edition 3rd Impression by Tolkien (3 results)

The Author (illustrator). Allen & Unwin printed only 1,509 copies of a third impression in 1942, a scarce copy. The boards are clean and bright with no fading, slight rubbing to spine edges. Text block clean and bright, with no signatures, inscriptions or bookplates, no handling marks and no stains. Reasonably good green top colour. Lacking the dust jacket. An excellent early impression.

The Author (illustrator). Allen & Unwin printed only 1,509 copies of a third impression in 1942, making it a scarce find. The boards and spine are clean and bright with no fading. Contents clean and bright, no signatures, inscriptions or bookplates, no handling marks and no stains. Reasonably good green top colour, no the dust jacket. A fine 3rd impression of the 1st edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Children's Book Club edition using first edition, third impression sheets by arrangement with George Allen & Unwin. Allen & Unwin printed 1,509 copies of a third impression and a further 3,000 copies to be sold by Foyles. The sheets supplied to Foyles were unbound. The Children's Book Club edition was published with cheap simple boards, no map end papers and no frontispiece. Tolkien disliked the publication so much that no further Book Club editions were published. With thinner boards and war time economy paper there are few numbers of this publication to be found in a decent condition. Original yellow cloth boards with faded gilt lettering and lightly sunned spine. Single neat owner's signature to front free end paper, no further inscriptions or book plates. No foxing, stains or handling marks, text clean an bright throughout. VG+ to Near Fine. An excellent copy.